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Azans for the Infidel is an exploration of spirituality, identity, and the human spirit's resilience in the face of adversity. It challenges readers to reflect on the complexity of religious experiences and the significance of finding acceptance within oneself, even in a world that often demands conformity. It celebrates the beauty of embracing one's uniqueness and navigating life's uncertainties with unwavering authenticity. Sujash Purna take...

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From a diverse, working-class Queens neighborhood emerge Joe Benevento's coming-of-age poems of promise, misconnection, and loss. Yearnings that are undone by youthful awkwardness, peer pressure, the strictures of grownups, happenstance, and the passage of time, as when chipping collected rocks in the cellar of a boyhood friend and "... aware almost anything / could happen. This very next rock might shine / flecks of gold or hopeful bits of gr...

Infinity Ends Soon recreates the search for two characters in two different historical moments and countries: Marcos, a contemporary Colombian mathematician, and Georg Cantor, a 19th Century Russian mathematician. The narrator, Joseph, and Marcos meet by chance in a mental hospital in Montería where Marcos relives the past in Medellín, his youth, the women he loved, the violence he experienced in his beloved city, and his obsession with the...

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Born in the Wrong Desert is Misha Tentser's debut chapbook poetry collection. Tentser writes "I'm a lost Jew born / in the wrong desert, / I feel my insides twist toward Jerusalem, " Despite Tentser's apprehension, he steps back to examine the southwest desert that he carries from birth. Collecting the names of people and stories who helped make this desert his home. Steeped in story and poetic language, Tentser delivers a terse morsel of his ...

Elena Salamanca's TAL VEZ MONSTRUOS Fragmentos de [INCOGNITA FLORA CUSCATLANICA] / MONSTERS MAYBE Fragments from [INCOGNITA FLORA CUSCATLANICA] is an excerpt from a book-length poem that explores the intersection between ecology, colonial violence, personal memory, family-ancestral knowledge, and place. Written from a historian's eye for research and detail, Salamanca weaves poetic language to explore colonial practices that led to ecological ...

Born and raised in Compton, California, Richard Vargas is seeped in the culture of his youth-the fresh beans and tender tortillas, the addict father and close families and cool lowrider. He suffered and delighted in the expectations of his gender, including the sense that a willing woman or couple of beers could sweep the blues away. He served in the military, graduated from an MFA program too late in life to reap its employment benefits, acqu...